A World-Wide Web of HyperCards in every Browser
HyperCard is a vintage Apple software environment created in the 1980s and last released in 1998. Despite some limitations, it was a technology way ahead of its time: key ideas from HyperCard would later become the World Wide Web, and then the Web ate everything.
This talk covers cross-compiling with Emscripten to WebAssembly, Classic Macintosh emulation, and how HyperCard's true destiny as a web platform can be realised, finally delivering justice to the "crimes" of Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
About Josh Deprez
Josh works for Google in Site Reliability Engineering. Previously he was at the University of Tasmania doing a PhD in Mathematics, which ...explains rather a lot. Please don't hold it against him. He is a long-time AUC enthusiast and serial /dev/world offender.
/dev/world is Australia's longest running conference for Swift, macOS and iOS developers and designers, and returns to Melbourne 2-4 September 2019.
All attendees, speakers, and organisers are expected to abide by the AUC Code of Conduct.
Questions? Email us at devworld@auc.edu.au or tweet at us.